W Quotes
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“What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in.”
“What drives me mad in evangelical circles, including some young Reformed circles, is that there is often a sit-on-the-couch-and-wait-for-God-to-do-something mentality that is unbiblical and wicked. It's probably been true of every generation, but I can see it most clearly in the younger crowd. There seems to be so little war when it comes to sin.”
“What drives me now is the desire to be able to keep doing this. I love making records and performing, and success means I will continue to have the privilege to do that. I know it's not going to last forever, but I'd like to keep having success as long as I can so that I can still be a part of this industry.”
“What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.”
“What drives me nuts is that we have these serial sexual predators, who hired back women whose careers were ruined by men who harassed or assaulted them and they're high profile people, and the next day the media is talking about who's going to rehire them. I'm like, Who cares? Why would they be hirable again? I mean, I'm all for comebacks, but what about the women? Shouldn't we be going back to them first? They had the American dream taken away from them.”
“What drives me to you, drives me insane.”
“What drives me, and what always has, is that I am still looking for my place.”
“What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.”
“What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.”
“What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.”
“What drives people crazy is trying to live outside reality. Reality is terrible. It can kill you. Given time, it certainly will kill you. The reality is pain–you said that! But it's the lies, the evasions of reality, that drive you crazy. It's the lies that make you want to kill yourself.”
Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“What drives the creative person is that we see it all.”
“What drives us forward, can just as well pull us down: our ambitions, prejudice, overwhelming pride, the inability to believe - in God, in friends, in the mankind in general.”
Source: Love and Die Twice: Between Passion and Destiny
“What drives winning? Attitude? Vision? Persistence? Hard work? Discipline? Or is it a combination of above and more.”
“What drives your passion?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.”
“What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.”
“What drove such people to their sinister occupations? Spite? Certainly, but also the desire for order. Because the desire for order tries to transform the human world into an inorganic reign in which everything goes well, everything functions as a subject of an impersonal will. The desire for order is at the same time a desire for death, because life is a perpetual violation of order. Or, inversely, the desire for order is a virtuous pretext by which man's hatred for man justifies its crimes.”
Source: Farewell Waltz
“What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk.”
“What drug will keep night from coming?”
“What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has”
“What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has”
“What e'er thou art, act well thy part.”
“What e'er you are
That in this desert inaccessible,
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.”
Source: The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)
“What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.”
Source: On Religion
“What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...”
“What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.”
“What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.”
“What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.”
“What each of us longs for the most is to be both fully known and fully loved. Miraculously, God feels the same way about us. God, too, wants to be fully known and fully loved. God wants this so much that He has promised to knock down every obstacle in the way, enduring even His own death, to be with us, to consummate this love.”
“What each one of us fundamentally needs is that inner peace which is to be discovered solely within ourselves, which no-one else can give, which the world with all its resources, can never supply.”
“What each school offers is something unique. But, there are two types of activity an architect must be educated on. First, the architect needs concentrated activities to learn the guidelines, and that is what school is for. But, second, is the public aspect of education. The architect needs to see architecture in the streets to learn.”
“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone
“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.”
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?”
“What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition making itself unpleasant. And we spend our time playing golf? What do we get out of it? Is golf any use? That's what I'm asking you. Can you name me a single case where devotion to this pestilential pastime has done a man any practical good?”
Source: The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized”
“What economists and political scientists today call the “rational choice of individuals,” but what Smith called “the individual pursuit of happiness,” leads according to this view in a mechanical way to general welfare. As Alexander Pope in his Essay on Man put it: “true Self Love and Social are the same.” While this is the foundation of liberal capitalism, Marx’s dialectical materialism is not different in its selection of the economy as the prime mover. In this way the economy becomes the most important purpose of society. Fortunately, the economy has laws of causation, or, at least, that is what economists would like us to believe. Statistics are gathered to provide an objectified view of reality that enables social engineering. The individual and the collective are simultaneously put in an economic framework that is secular not in the sense that it is nonreligious, since individuals can rationally pursue religious ends, but in the sense that a God-given order of society has been replaced by an order that is constantly produced by homo economicus” (p. 41).”
Source: The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India
“What Ed's family rely on are the heavy, hearty meals that are cheap to make but full of sustenance. Rich, golden yakisoba, often more noodles than meat. Yolky omurice filled to bursting with fried rice, the copious carbohydrates leaving his belly stretched. Or even donburi, thrown together using whatever leftovers they have at the end of the week, Ed's favorite being pork cutlet, the chewy fat sliding down to rest in his gut before bed.”
Source: Greedy
“What editors are obliged to appear to say that”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.”
“What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.”
“What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!”
Source: When Worlds Collide
“What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.”
“What elevates one and not another to the level of genius is not only talent and ambition and luck, but a gift for turning everything to the purpose. ... Perhaps that is a common element in the story of genius: beyond talent and ambition and luck, in some degree you have to be forcibly booted out of everyday life and everyday goals. In any case, it was like that with Brahms. The fulfillment of love was denied him so that other things might take wing.”
Source: Johannes Brahms: A Biography
“What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or new rules or an anxiety induced by spiritual scoldings. It is faith in the promise that the enjoyment sin brings is fleeting and futile, but at God's right hand, and in the presence of His radiant glory, are pleasures evermore (Ps. 16:11).”
“What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.”
Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“What else are mirrors meant for then
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But so each knows himself from other men!’
Your mirrors show the husk and not the kernel;
The soul-revealing mirror is eternal:
This mirror for the soul is the saint’s face,
The one who is beyond all time and space—
‘Heart, seek a mirror of this type!’ I’d scream,
‘Reach for the ocean, and not a mere stream!”
Source: The Masnavi, Book Two